beginner whitespace question

Dan Bishop danb_83 at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 9 20:52:44 EDT 2007


On Aug 9, 7:02 pm, eggie5 <egg... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 9, 4:52 pm, Dan Bishop <danb... at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > On Aug 9, 6:47 pm, eggie5 <egg... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I keep getting an error for line 7, what's wrong with this?
>
> > > from django.db import models
>
> > > class Poll(models.Model):
> > >     question = models.CharField(max_length=200)
> > >     pub_date = models.DateTimeField('date published')
>
> > >         def __unicode__(self):
> > >                 return self.question
>
> > The "def" statements have to be at the same indentation level as
> > what's before it.
>
> will they still be a part of the classes?

If you indent them twice, it's a syntax error.
If you indent them once, they'll be methods of the class.
If you don't indent them at all, they'll be global functions.




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